The heard immunity threshold for the coronavirus are all over: 40%, 50%, 60%,70% of population infection.
Considering 350 million US population. We should see some heard immunity to start building up as we cross (140 Million) 40% or more population in US infected (and recovered).
An interesting article on this matter:
@hanera, wants to move back to CA yet?
The strain going wild in Houston is a mutated one thatâs more contagious.
Sorry I am not in Houston.
Read these lines in the article about new coronavirus strain:
The week before, researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory reported on the mutation. They said it doesnât make people sicker, but appears to facilitate the spread of the virus.
Does it mean the strain of the virus is more contagious but less lethal?
updated news - my sisterâs boyfriend who she lives with and my parents all tested negative. So I guess she was one of the asymptomatic ones that werenât that contagious. I have several other friends in Texas (Austin, Houston, Dallas, San Antonio) that have it right now- ranging from barely any symptoms to healthy people my age in the hospital, itâs definitely a range.
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Cancel this SF tech bro. Must be a torture for an Asian hater living in SF.
Drunk, along because his Asian Tinder date ditched him (?), upset with the noise and good cheer. Regardless of reasons heâs now persona non grata.
I was there this weekend. Glad I missed that disaster.
That guy will be solidly cancelled. 
The science experiment with human guinea pigs isnât going so well in Sweden.
More than three months later, the coronavirus is blamed for 5,420 deaths in Sweden, according to the World Health Organization. That might not sound especially horrendous compared with the more than 129,000 Americans who have died. But Sweden is a country of only 10 million people. Per million people, Sweden has suffered 40 percent more deaths than the United States, 12 times more than Norway, seven times more than Finland and six times more than Denmark.
Swedenâs central bank expects its economy to contract by 4.5 percent this year, a revision from a previously expected gain of 1.3 percent. The unemployment rate jumped to 9 percent in May from 7.1 percent in March.
This is more or less how damage caused by the pandemic has played out in Denmark, where the central bank expects that the economy will shrink 4.1 percent this year, and where joblessness has edged up to 5.6 percent in May from 4.1 percent in March.
Swedenâs grim result â more death, and nearly equal economic damage â suggests that the supposed choice between lives and paychecks is a false one: A failure to impose social distancing can cost lives and jobs at the same time.
When everyone is hurting economically, there is no way Sweden will stay up. Thanks to globalization. How much of the contraction in Swedish economy can be attributed to world wide economic contraction ?
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+9,500 on Tuesday. Highest daily CA.
Sweden admitted they initially didnât do enough to protect the elderly and vulnerable. We didnât have all the data on which pre-existing illnesses made people the most vulnerable. Once they reacted to that and protected the vulnerable, you can see the result.
It is interesting deaths declined far before the number of new cases declined. So the hypothesis that protecting the vulnerable will reduce deaths was accurate.
Iâll pretend Iâm not shocked by something I pointed out in March. Iâm also not shocked that no one here cared that 5 governors ordered nursing homes to accept Covid patients. Those 5 states have some of our highest death totals with a majority of deaths happening in nursing homes. The blatant irrationality on this topic is a bit much.
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They have a lower rate of deaths per million than the USâŚ
Is what matter. Really donât care about cases per million so long hospital beds utilization is below 100%.
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ok so Trump is a dick and I hate him but I kind of agree on his point re:schools needing to reopenâŚ
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If parents are still WFH and schools donât re-open, itâll be ugly. Parents might force it.
So offices are too dangerous for adults but schools are kosher for little kids. Keep in mind whatever kids catch in schools parents will catch in no time.
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There is clear data showing kids arenât impacted as much and arenât super spreaders. So yes I do think there is a difference.
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Iâm tired of reading the one off news articles that this one healthy person got it and died, thus everyone needs to be scared. I know someone who died being put under for wisdom teeth removal and was 30 and healthy, you donât see that article floating around to encourage no one to do routine procedures.
I donât disagree this has a higher mortality rate than the flu in certain age groups BUT I also donât think that continuing to live inside for the next several years is feasible. We need to figure out how to get back to life and mitigate the risk not avoid it alltogether. Life is about making tradeoffs for experiences vs the risk in those.
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